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[insert joke about how publishing fresh JVN tokens will accelerate AGI timelines]
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https://johnvon.com (clickable link)
Lukas Münzel (who made this project):
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See also: Methodology and Code for the transcription/translation via GPT-5-Thinking and Claude-Sonnet-4.5.[1]
They likely accessed these via ETH Zurich's library.[2]
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1. They used gpt-5 (line 14 & line 83) and gpt-5 in API = gpt-5-thinking in system card. Claude in line 46. ↩︎
2. Lukas studies at ETH Zurich. HS 91:682 is in ETH Zurich's library ↩︎
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For the third passage, he was not comparing the USA in general with Germany in general. He was comparing the stagnation of progress in theoretical physics:
Dirac is here, which benefits the physics here greatly, although it does not remedy the depression of theoretical physics. —
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The general depression that prevails here and is certainly sufficiently well known to you, nonetheless, measured by European standards, it is still "God's own country". Somewhat frightening, though, is that it looks roughly like Germany in 1927, so that one does not quite clearly...
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